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Section Manager
Article Section Manager
The section manager is a very important part to Joomla's article system its how you get your article's organized in some ways its
how you map out your web site. Just a like a supermarket has isles Joomla has sections.
The section manager works just like most part's of Joomla UI.
With a Grid Data set page with rows and columns.
The columns are sortable by clicking on them or using the filter.
In the cutout image below is a view of the edit form it but its the same for new as well.
Scope:
There is no choice here content is the default.
Title:
Section title you will see this in the article manager and sections manager.
Alias:
Title alias is used for "SEF" search engine friendly.
You can leave this blank and Joomla will fill it in or you can fill it in yourself.
It should consist of lowercase letters, and no blank spaces are allowed.
Use a hyphen (-) instead. The Alias will be used in the URL when SEF is activated.
Published:
Whether to show the section or not.
Order:
As most of Joomla's UI you have the option of changing the order in which section appears in the page grid set.
Access Level:
We have covered this in the Access Control List section.
Image:
Sections can be displayed with an image. Which by default are stored in Joomla_rootimagesstories* directory.
Now it only list the images that are at the root of this folder.
So if your going to use its feature make sure that your make your images inside this folder.
Image Position:
Line up the images to the right or left of the sections description.
The cutout below is the default editor for Joomla and works the same way.
you can add images via the Images button on the footer.
Please note: That menus control the page layout of sections.
So to show a section description or the above image settings you need to make sure that menus basic parameters
are set for Description: "Show" and Description Image: "Show" to view your section.
There are two section menu link layout types which are
Section Blog Layout:
Section Layout:
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